Martin Carthy

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Paul Weller: True Meanings review – A return to form and focus

There have been occasions in the past 40 years of Paul Weller’s career when ambitions have outstripped results, but there’s no denying the dedication (...)

Paul Simon: He sings 27 songs in 140 minutes, careering through decades. Photograph: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images
Paul Simon: what to expect at farewell concert in Dublin
  • Music
  • July 12, 2018, 06:15

Paul Simon adopts a comical Mancunian accent as he remembers how promoters in the working men’s clubs would introduce him in the 1960s, telling audien(...)

Offa Rex: A fateful evocation of British folk-rock
  • Music
  • July 11, 2017, 13:24

As befits a band named after an early 19th-century Russian revolutionary group, Portland, Oregon’s The Decemberists have a strong sense of history. In(...)

Bleeding Heart Pigeons at Other Voice 2015 in Dingle, Co Kerry. Photograph: Rich Gilligan
Other Voices day two review: Glen Hansard, Mahalia, Low
  • Music
  • December 6, 2015, 13:45

Glen Hansard **** Lest we forget, Glen Hansard presented the inaugural series of Other Voices during the great Irish singer-songwriter boom of 2003.(...)

Jean Ritchie recording Séamus Ennis playing the uilleann pipes in March 1952. Photograph: George Pickow Image Collection/James Hardiman Library
‘When Séamus Ennis played, it stood your hair on end’
  • Music
  • August 10, 2015, 06:00

‘Séamus Ennis was unique,” wrote Ciarán Mac Mathúna, about the singular piper, folklorist and broadcaster on his death in 1982. “Of course every pe(...)

Sam Amidon – an old folk head on young shoulders

Sam Amidon is trying his hardest to rein in his inner fanboy, but it’s impossible. He just can’t help it. “I mean, Martin Hayes, ” he says with the(...)